Witt's End

Recovery. Progress. These are two terms I talk about all the time. The path that happens when we choose to address something. It's the next phase of the journey. And it can lead to healing. Currently it's the entire focus on what I do. Just supporting people in their recovery.  But I can't be a hypocrite. I have to put in the work for myself. Maintaining that recovery for myself and the progress I've made. It's been quite the journey. And every time I think about a potential destination the goal posts move. What I expect of myself changes. I think that's a healthy place to be. It's taken a lot of work. It will continue to take work. There's no end. Just a new way of living.  It's causing me to reflect on the faith that helped get me here. Faith, works, grace. The whole lot of it.  My entire life there has been quite the focus on the Atonement of Jesus Christ and it's role in our lives for redemption and salvation. It's an essential piece of h...

I am in a new place. And it’s shocking how fast I got here. If you want to have a wake up call, re-examine your faults based on the harm they’ve caused others. Emotional, physical, spiritual. All the sudden your most common sins are not the absences in obvious conformity; no they’re the simple slights and harms to others. I just did this over the past weeks and let’s just say I feel really convicted by it. It's led me to a place where  I am completely reevaluating what it means for me to sin.  It’s startling to make realizations about how we treat others.  The worst damage is often a much smaller slight than we had imagined, or even unintentional. I’ve spoken in the past of the danger of rating sins. I still think that matters, especially when we judge others. But I’ve softened on how I feel about that when it comes to self evaluation. When we judge others we are often examining them in the abstract and out of context. We can’t pass judgement without complete knowledge of...